“The Smile's cupboard-clearing Cutouts succeeds far beyond expectations”
“The Radiohead spinoff’s looser, funkier second album in nine months is a thrilling testament to the near-telepathic chemistry the three musicians have spent the last three years developing.”
“as intricately crafted as Radiohead but with added groove”
“Radiohead side project settles into a groove”
“Towards the end of the podcast series Dissect, which conducted a forensic song-by-song investigation of Radiohead’s In Rainbows across ten episodes, there’s a well-sourced aside about the reason the band’s albums have been so few and far between in the last 20 years: essentially, Thom Yorke can’t bring himself to greenlight a Radiohead release until he’s completely content with it all, and that’s ”
“I knew it would only be a matter of time before the Smile went through their Kid A phase, but I had no idea it would be so soon. I was expecting one or two more albums or EPs of jittery atmospheric post-punk before ol' Thom and Jonny busted out the modular synthesizer and contemporary orchestral soundscapes. The two have both been on a film score kick for a decade — Yorke with the Suspiria remake”
